St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

ABOUT nV6 nunQfeu COOpSrS elHploy gu
in private shops at Milwaukee, Wis,
went out on strike on the I'd for an in
crease of five cents per barrel. The men
have been averaging 1913 to So per week.
THE Emperor Francis Joseph has pre-
scented Cardinal Vannutelli, who is about
to retire from the papal nunciate at
Vienna, with the decoration OF the grand
cross of st. Stephen of Hungary.
A STRIKE was declared on the ID in the
cigar factory of Lozano, Penda5 q Co.,
New York. The firm employs two hun
dred men, Or nearly half the Spanish cigar
makers in the city, and the factory is the
largest for pure Havana goods in this
country.
THE steamer B. P. Heath was burned off
Sheboygan, Wis, on the I'd, one life being
lost.
A WESTERN BOUND Atlantic & Pacific
passenger train leaving Albuquerque, N.
NJ, on the morning of the I'd, ran off the
track fifteen miles from Coolidge, n NJ,
and was badly wrecked. Several per-
sons were killed and many wounded.
A BIG fire ragged all day on the I'd in col
liery No. at Wilkes barre, Pa. 1t broke
out suddenly, and all effort to suppress it
proved unavailing. At night the coal
was burning more tiercely than ever.
Preparations were being made to flood the
mine, that being the only way to extin-
guish the fire.
CHARLES MORROW, of Nicholasville, n.
Y, killed his wife on the 30 and then com
mitted suicide.
THE boiler of a switch engine at New
Haven, Conn, exploded on the Sd, severe
~ injuring six persons.
THE Chinese government has settled the
currency question by making a contract
with Birmingham firm for a supply of
silver and bronze coinage
A HoME-RULE campaign is being organ
lied in the west of England, and speeches
are to be delivered during the month of
June.
CANON WHEREFORE visited the Presi-
dent at the White House on the Sd, and
carried away good impression.
The jury in the libel suit of st. John
Brenon against Publisher Ridgway, at
London, rendered verdict for Brenon,
awarding him $500 damages.
THE wife of Charles Martin, living near
Grand Rapids, Mich, took s"Rough on
rats on the Sd, and gave some also to her
two children. She and one of the chi,
dren died
IN the British House of Commons on the
the Sd another ch-of-privilegc ques-
ton was up, John Dillon claiming to have
been slandered by the London Times.
Representative from portions of Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Iowa, leave Kansas
City for San Francisco to attend the Y.
NJ. c. A. biennial convention on the 18th.
THE coinage of the minis during the
month of April aggregated $5043, S95, of
which s3,010,0O) was in standard silver
dollars.
TIE Manchester (Eng) exhibition was
opened on the 81 by the Prince of Wales,
who was enthusiastically received. The
weather was dull during the opening
ceremonies.
Mr.. PAENELL has selected William
O'Brien. editor Of the United Ireland as the
Home-Rule candidate for Northeast Cork,
to fill the vacancy In the House of Com
mons caused by the resignation of Edmund
Leamy, Home Ruler.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was felt
at Albuquerque, N. NJ, on the Sd, sufficient
to stop clocks and cause gas-pipes and
pendant rods to vibrate. No damage.
THE Hounslow gunpowder mills at
Hounslow, near London, England, were de-
stroyed on the Sd by an explosion which
occurred in the milling-room. One man
was killed. Much damage was done to
the property in the neighborhooi.
A TERRIBLE marine disaster is reported
from Newfoundland. The steamship
John Knox, with all on board-thirty
souls-sunk during storm on the I'd.
In the Wilton County On. H. house of
correction, on the Sd, one of the inmates
in a fit of rage attacked one of the officers
of the institution with a file, stabbing him
in the region of the heart making prob
ably fatal wound.
WIN. B. MONTGOMERY, private secretary
to the Commissioner Of Patents, has ten
dered his resignation, to take effect on
the 10th inst, to enter the customs serv-
ice at Detroit, Mich.
QUEEN KAPIoLANI, of the Hawaiian
Islands, and party arrived in Was hington
on the evening of the 81. They were at
once driven to the Arlington Hotel, where
rooms had been engaged for the entire
party.
FRANK ALFRIEND, Assistant Librarian
of the United States Senate, died in Wash
ington on the 81 of rheumatism of the
heart, after short illness. Mr.. Alfriend
was native of Virginia, and was only re-
Gently appointed to the position which he
held at the time of his death.
THE Connellsville (Pa.) coke workers
are on strike.
THE Hawaiian Queen called on the
President at the White House on the 4th.
SENATOR CAMDEN has withdrawn frOleA
the senatorial race in West Virginia.
ANNUAL meetings were held on the 4th
at Cleveland, O., of the stockholders of
the Lake Shore Il Michigan Southern and
the New York, Chicago & st. Louis rail
roads.
A CoAL-MINE horror is reported from
British Columbia, in which the number of
dead miners is estimated at hundred and
fifty.
THE London Times IS very moderate in
it's comments on the issue raised in
Parliament by John Dillon because of its
severe charges against him.
THOMAS B. KERR, who was indicted
jointly, in New York, with Jacob Sharp
and Jim Richmond, for bribing aldermen,
was thrown from his carriage while driv-
ing in Central Park on the 4th and was Sc